10 years from now. You've got this!

This isn’t wholesome for me, it is a literal waking nightmare.

I don’t want cookie cutter suburban stability I want a reason to live.

This ain’t it for me man.

About 5 years ago, I had this dream... I was sat at the bottom of a spiral staircase, in what I knew to be my house, having a party with my fiancee sat next to me. I laughed and said "How did I get so lucky, someone pinch me!". Fiancee pinched me, I said "ow!" and we laughed. Then I woke up, fucking brutal sense of loss for a wonderful life that suddenly didn't exist.

I still remember it quite clearly. Last month my landlord served notice on me after 13 years (wants to sell), I'm self employed and always thought a mortgage was out of the question. Well... I have tenative approval from a lender... and an offer accepted on a house... still time for it to fall apart. So I refuse to get excited till keys in hand.

Anyway this has turned into a bit of a long ting. But just wanted to share, for anyone else who thinks it's impossible... it's very hard. But do-able.

This is literally impossible. Christmas 2033 falls on a Sunday, how can the following day be Saturday?

Reality:

You get fucked by big companies. Your snow is reduced to februrary because of climate change.

Finding a special other is almost impossible due to social media fed anxiety. Meeting people outside of the internet is unknown and people on the internet are the weirdest ones.

Owning a house is a privilege of the upper society.

Thanks to our parents and grand parents the governments in most countries are more right wing than before.

I'm going to be honest but that's really not my dream life lol

I have a vasectomy...

WHERE DID THE KIDS COME FROM

In ten years we'll have missed the boat to have kids and we still probably won't be able to afford a home in the city we live in. At least it won't be long till the Water Wars starts and ends this miserable timeline.

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future.

This is a nightmare. I intentionally moved somewhere that it never snows and I absolutely hate children.

If you don't own a home by now, then you probably never will. Unless you are given a large sum of money, forget it.

I am 31 and still don't see myself having kids in 10 years or indeed ever.

and I would prefer sitting in my jaccuzi while it's snowing around me.

God I hope I don’t have kids in my late mid 40’s. Can I imagine living in a shack I built on some land I bought and I don’t have to talk to idiots everyday about nonsense? Nne of that shit in the meme appeals to me.

These are such negative comments in the replies

10 years later: Single, can’t afford rent, job doesn’t pay, kids? Can’t even afford a fish, it’s scorching hot outside, and tomorrow you work. All the hard work, for what? At least the bosses made it

c/aboringdystopia

This but without the kids

Boomer fanfiction is so hot right now.

Snowing in the middle of summer? That's disturbing.

Picture this: enough fent to kill an elephant. You smile as you throw all of it in your mouth and chase it with your favorite cocktail.

I remember seeing this meme about twelve years ago and thinking Yeah I got this. Well, I didn't and I don't.

Snow, in this climate?

Must be nuclear fallout.

Why must you torture me.

The nice part is "the kids are asleep" because kids are so much fucking work when they are awake. "You made it" means you finally got the kids too sleep because they ate too much sugar and were bouncing off the fucking walls because "I can't sleep because I'm too excited".

I'm 8 years in right now, 2 more to go but damn what a struggle. Building a house while simultaneously raising 3 kids and working a full time job is really hard. Thank God for the best wife I could ever ask for.

I do not dream of labor. Ten years from now I hope I am building apocalypse resistant shelters with my affinity group, growing my own food and filtering my own water, and growing cannabis for trade.

Not the hard work addressing my alcoholism, apparently

Turned 40 April 1st. Married 20 very happy years. This is my every day homies :D

I had that 10 years ago. It was amazing. Then my wife's personality did a 180 and she left me.

... yay

Why would you want to watch TV?

And it doesn't snow here anymore, hmm.

I could, but Christmas Day 2033 is a Sunday.

I don't see it. I wish I did but I don't :(

the kids are asleep

So unrealistic

But I have to work on Saturday.

Very depressing, in 10 years I should be retired and my kids out of the house, not clinging home like leeches... jeee.

Didn't happen

10 years from now ... It's snowing

cherish it

Damn the revolution was successful? Sweet, we made it!

I mean, there's "wholesome", and then there's "pull the other one, it's got bells on".

Oh brother...

I dig your username.

This but no kids

Alternatively, skip the kids and get there 20 years earlier.

Kill me right now if that's my future lmao

Impossible. The kids are ALWAYS up first on Christmas.

Already married (more than a decade). Nice home (but renting). Disabled so can't work but that's OK, we make the best of it. We don't celebrate Christmas but I can imagine Winter Solstice or Matariki. Kids are almost asleep, so close enough. My spouse and I snuggle like this most nights. Holy shit, it's snowing?! It doesn't snow here so I'm simultaneously delighted for a once in a lifetime snowfall but also disturbed that it's snowing.... We homeschool, what day of the week is it again? The hardwork is indeed worth it.

Still 7/10 ain't bad 😅

Every day is 'making it' though and will be for the rest of our lives since life is ever changing and ever evolving. Find hygge and gratitude every day and you'll realise that you don't need to achieve some fake "made it" state because you already have 💜

I got it a couple of times. Waiting for the next time.

I don't want a job or kids. Both sound stressful

Lmao I thought that 10 years ago. Now I have a house, a good job and 3 cats.

Nice home? I'm Canadian...

I only have five years left to live. None of this will come true.

Oh bother

6 years ago my wife died. I chose to keep on going for our cats. I've since remarried, we have a daughter on the way, two dachshunds, we bought a house, and I reconnected with my mother after 15 years. Life is so fucking hard but sometimes we get lucky. Keep rolling the dice until you can't no more.

if this was 1975 I would totally picture it

Oh shit, it's the middle of summer and snowing in a place that doesn't even snow in winter. The climate is far worse than I thought... and we have kids now. Hopefully they're not mine, I'm too old to deal with that...

10 years from now?

It won't happen. Either the AI will have killed us all by then, or it turns out the AI is benevolent and so no one has to work anymore anyway and so I'm not really bothered if it's the weekend.

Either way I don't have to worry about it.